• Obama’s Gamble in Iraq and Syria

    Obama’s Gamble in Iraq and Syria

    President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday marks the third major shift in United States counterterrorism strategy since 9/11, but it remains to be seen if the new approach will work better than the previous ones. The first shift followed the 9/11 attacks, when George W. Bush launched what became known as the Global War on

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  • Hedging Bets: Aid Agencies’ New Preoccupation with Failure

    Hedging Bets: Aid Agencies’ New Preoccupation with Failure

    An earlier version of this essay appeared on RegBlog.org      Nobody likes to admit failure—least of all government-funded development organizations in hard economic times. Yet recent years have seen a number of prominent development agencies confess to failure. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) admitted its failure to recognize the damage that its overzealous approach to

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  • What Should Canada Do About Cuba’s Participation in the Americas Summit?

    What Should Canada Do About Cuba’s Participation in the Americas Summit?

    This commentary reflects the public remarks and off-the-record discussion with officials at the forum on Cuba, the 2015 Americas Summit, and Beyond: Obstacles and Opportunities, which was co-sponsored by CIPS on September 4, 2014. Most Latin American and Caribbean states have indicated they will not attend the Americas Summit planned by Panama for April 2015

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  • Can Al Qaeda Compete With ISIL?

    Can Al Qaeda Compete With ISIL?

    By Archana Sundarachari and Wesley Wark The world’s attention has been riveted for weeks on the military exploits and brutal excesses of a relatively new jihadist entity, the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS or IS).  ISIL traces its roots to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and was once an affiliate

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